Uni-verse 297/10,000 Psalm 49 v 8 The price of eternal life
The ransom for a life is costly, no payment is ever enough
When man first disbelieved the word of God and believed the words of
Satan, the spirit that God had breathed into man was literally abducted by Satan. The consequence was that man who was created to live forever could no longer do so. Death became a necessary invention. But, as the desire to live forever remained in man’s consciousness ( Human consciousness is the spiritual equivalent of memory), men have always sought to escape death and live forever at least in the memory of others by having monuments to himself built, by naming streets, cities and places after him, by conquests and accomplishments, by amassing wealth, by being religious and doing acts of philanthrophy. Philosophy and religion can at best aspire for “ the good life” but eternal life where one will not see decay is the realm of the spirit.
Having been abducted by Satan, mankind also developed over time a kind of Stockholm syndrome of being in love with the abductor. Being in love with one self, with the world and being engrossed in the ways of the world are symptoms of this fascination of mankind for the abductor. Just as some jailbirds enjoy staying in prison, people of the world even begin to relish the confinement and travails as well as comforts of the world. Some people even give up their lives that others be saved. But, when they themselves are in threat of perishing forever, can they save others?
Every thing,they say, has a price. Eternal life is priceless. The price for setting people free or to ransom them from eternal death is that the Eternal One Himself had to pay the price of dying for all. But, we need to be first delivered from enjoying the prison of the world- from being influenced by the Stockholm syndrome to be able to recognize who is God, who is Satan, what is death and how to be delivered from death.
Prateep V Philip
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Tuesday, December 20, 2011
HOW an instrument of progressive death became hope
Uni-verse 277/10,000 Galatians 2 v 20
Gal 2:20 I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me.
The God-man separation is the ultimate curse, the ultimate penalty. When we are separated from God, we are cut off from the source of our life, the source of our power, the source of unfailing love. The God-man separation ended potentially on that accursed despicable pieces of joined wood- the Roman cross. The cross was designed to be an instrument not of swift execution like the clinically precise guillotine but an instrument of progressive death. It was to be a spectacle for all the world to see to deter the wrong-doer. But, it was also a symbol of a life of separation from God. Our life without God is but a progressive death.
History was split into BC and AD( not the secular , now fashionable BCE and CE) in that one cathartic act of dying by the sinless Christ on the sinful cross . The defining moment in our lives happens when we stop living in our BC period where we rely on our sense and senses, on our own light and our own strength. The defining moment happens when we move into the year(s) of grace (AD period). We no longer live by sight but by faith.
Everything about Jesus Christ was predicted well ahead of time: His immaculate birth, His sinless life, His ‘sin-ful’ death, His glorious Resurection and His even more glorious Return. But, nothing that He does and what He is going to do in the lives of those who believe and trust Him is predictable. It is interesting to note that this uni-verse speaks not of living by faith in the Son of God but living by the faith of the Son of God. It means we need to move from a level of faith in Jesus to the level of His absolute trust and obedience of the Father that Jesus demonstrated. Nothing, absolutely nothing can now separate us from the love of God. “I-in-Him” becomes “He-in-me”. Listen to this blessong:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eOY0mjjmx8Y&feature=endscreen&NR=1
Prateep V Philip
Gal 2:20 I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me.
The God-man separation is the ultimate curse, the ultimate penalty. When we are separated from God, we are cut off from the source of our life, the source of our power, the source of unfailing love. The God-man separation ended potentially on that accursed despicable pieces of joined wood- the Roman cross. The cross was designed to be an instrument not of swift execution like the clinically precise guillotine but an instrument of progressive death. It was to be a spectacle for all the world to see to deter the wrong-doer. But, it was also a symbol of a life of separation from God. Our life without God is but a progressive death.
History was split into BC and AD( not the secular , now fashionable BCE and CE) in that one cathartic act of dying by the sinless Christ on the sinful cross . The defining moment in our lives happens when we stop living in our BC period where we rely on our sense and senses, on our own light and our own strength. The defining moment happens when we move into the year(s) of grace (AD period). We no longer live by sight but by faith.
Everything about Jesus Christ was predicted well ahead of time: His immaculate birth, His sinless life, His ‘sin-ful’ death, His glorious Resurection and His even more glorious Return. But, nothing that He does and what He is going to do in the lives of those who believe and trust Him is predictable. It is interesting to note that this uni-verse speaks not of living by faith in the Son of God but living by the faith of the Son of God. It means we need to move from a level of faith in Jesus to the level of His absolute trust and obedience of the Father that Jesus demonstrated. Nothing, absolutely nothing can now separate us from the love of God. “I-in-Him” becomes “He-in-me”. Listen to this blessong:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eOY0mjjmx8Y&feature=endscreen&NR=1
Prateep V Philip
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